Service Disciplines

Business Development

Many companies do not have resources dedicated to finding,
researching and responding to Requests for Quote (RFQ), which are the lifeblood of
future business. We do! For a modest fee, L2T procurement specialists
can assist companies to maintain a focus on running their business,
while L2T manages the process of developing new business on an
ongoing basis. Companies can choose to use the level of
service that meets their needs.
Click here for a description
of this new service.

Purchasing/Acquisition

Based on the consumption purposes of the acquired goods and
services, procurement activities are often split into two distinct
categories. The first category being direct,
production-related procurement and the second being indirect,
non-production-related procurement. L2T will provide both
types of procurements.

Direct procurement occurs in manufacturing settings only.
It encompasses all items that are part of finished products, such as
raw material, components and parts. Direct procurement, which
is the focus in supply chain management, directly affects the
production process of manufacturing firms. In contrast,
Indirect procurement activities concern “operating resources” that a
company purchases to enable its operations. It comprises a wide
variety of goods and services, from standardized low value items
like office supplies and machine lubricants to complex and costly
products and services, like heavy equipment and consulting services.

Supply Chain Management

L2T services encompasses the planning and management of all
activities involved in sourcing, procurement, conversion,
and logistics management. It also includes the crucial
components of coordination and collaboration with channel partners,
which can be suppliers, intermediaries, third-party service
providers, and customers. In essence, supply chain management
integrates supply and demand management within and across companies.
L2T emphasizes the use of small and minority business concerns.
It is vital to the American economy that companies in these
categories survive. L2T utilizes major efforts to include the
companies that are in the socieoeconomic categories that are
protected by the federal government.

Commodity Management

L2T will utilize a process of developing a systematic approach to
the entire usage cycle for a group of items. Commodity
Management is often used interchangeably with Category Management.

It is generally considered as one aspect of the Procurement
Management toolkit, and frequently is used in combination with other
tools--such as 'two-by-four-box' analysis, looking at the strategic
positioning of that commodity with respect to an organization and
its supplier. This may then be further developed with Supplier
Relationship Management (SRM), with designated Buyers managing key
suppliers in given commodities.

Logistics

L2T Products and Services will utilize effective processes to
manage the flow of resources between point of origin and the point
of destination in order to meet some customer requirements.
The resources managed in logistics can include physical items, such
as food, materials, equipment, liquids, and staff, as well as
abstract items such as information,
particles, and energy. The logistics of physical items
involves the integration of information flow, material handling,
production, packaging, inventory, transportation, warehousing, and
often, security. The complexity of logistics can be modeled,
analyzed, visualized, and optimized by dedicated simulation
software. Minimizing use of resources and time are common
goals we pursue.

For more information, please contact:

Walter Mitchell
President/Owner
(Please see our phone numbers at the top of this page.)wmitchell@L2Tpands.com
E-mail